Comments Thread For: How Will We Remember Adrien Broner?

[hitking]

Broner will not end up well and will be behind bars. Kids like Broner belong in a cell anyway protecting decent folks who are clean living. Broner on the streets is dangerous. A nice iron cell with bars is a better home for Broner and those like Broner. FACT

People can change. I've done far worse in my life than anything Broner has ever been publicly accused and/or convicted of. I paid my debt to society. And now I lead a very typical suburban life. Wife, kids, mortgage, family vacations in the summer, etc. But 10yrs ago, when I was around Broner's age, I was a very different guy.

[Sugar Adam Ali]

He will be known as a ****ing idiot, that squandered his talent, money, and fame

[A.K]

Really early to say he only took one chance since maidana and that's porter which he lost but finished strong he still has a long career ahead of him needs to fight a big name to see where he's at tho.

[allupnem]

He was never as good as some people made him out to be. Over hyped & over rated

[hitking]

He was never as good as some people made him out to be. Over hyped & over rated

When Broner beat Demarco (arguably the too guy at lightweight) for the WBC belt. Miguel Vazquez, Ricky Burns, Richar Abril were the other beltholders in the division. And Omar Figuroua was Broner's mandatory. Broner would have beaten all of them. Gamboa would have been an interesting test for Broner, but I think AB is too big for him. Broner would have run rough shot over that division until Terrance Crawford came calling. Overrated, I don't think so. Immature, undisciplined, and too much too soon would be more accurate labels.

[MrRolltide91]

Wasted potential

[MrRolltide91]

Even though most of his critics will pretend that he was some hype job, Broner was actually a talented guy. And during his rise, you would have been hard pressed to find a lot of lightweights that could have beaten him. I attribute most of AB's issues to being immature and ignorant. But I think some of the blame falls on a poor support system.

Very early in Broker's career, it was obvious that he saw himself as the next Mayweather. It also became obvious that being a star was more important to him than being a good fighter. Every successful person has yes-men around them. But everyone needs somebody around them to keep them grounded. Broner didn't have that. The worst career move Broner ever made was moving up to welterweight and fighting Malignaggi. That was as manufactured an event as I've ever seen. It was the perfect storm. Paulie was a light hitting guy two divisions north of where Broner fought. Which created safe intrigue. He had a paper trinket, which gave him credibility. It also had a big personality I that would mix well with Broner's to make for an entertaining prefight build-up. I also think long term, getting Broner in the mix at welterweight was a way to kinda set the stage for a showdown with Floyd. And Broner didn't put on a great performance. I thought he clearly won. But there was enough there that those in charge of his career should have realized that it was time to pump the breaks a little on Broner becoming a superstar. And drop him back down to lightweight. And let him genuinely try and build a star career. Instead of trying to manufacture one. But of course they didn't. They tried to carefully match him with Chino. And the rest us history.

At the end of the day, I don't think things end well for Broner. When guys like Broner get into trouble. People like to say he's "running with the wriong crowd." Losing sight of the fact that he is the wrong crowd. He's a bad guy. And things are gonna only get worse. Because his days as a relevant prize fighter are dwindling down. Which means his days of having the ability to earn the type of money to support the type of lifestyle he's intoxicated by are numbered. And I don't see Broner as being the type of guy that once he blows all his money, which he will, throwing on a hard hat and steel toe boots, going and working a construction job, and being a regular guy. He's gonna do whatever it takes to keep the big money coming in. Which will lead to the pen or the graveyard. If he even makes it to that point. It wouldn't surprise me at all to log onto this website one day and see Broner shot and killed, it has died tragically some other way. Or has caught a charge that's gonna lock him of for a significant amount of time. And either of these things happening while he's a semi-relevant fighter.

Yea they were obviously trying to make him a star by skipping 140 and going to 147.


I think the paulie fight was for a belt too.


The money was at 147.

[HandsofIron]

Wasted talent

[hitking]

Yea they were obviously trying to make him a star by skipping 140 and going to 147.


I think the paulie fight was for a belt too.


The money was at 147.

He got a lot of unwarranted criticism for the Gavin Rees fight. And I think that, along with the temptation of making him a star made his team make the bad decision of moving him up to 47.

Yes, Paulie had just won a paper trinket. Don't remember who he beat. But I remember that Paulie stopped him. So you know he wasn't very good if an old version of Paulie stopped him. But that setup the perfect manufactured event. And even though Broner won, you could see in that he had no business at 47. But instead of pumping the brakes, they tried to cherry pick Chino, and the rest is history.

[bambam182]

Bonehead was offered, refused a good paycheck.

GGG was offered, refused a good paycheck.

but you guys call that ducking by canelo.